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Offline Stormwind

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Re: Specialist Games return?
« Reply #105 on: January 07, 2016, 09:56:45 PM »
"About the Specialist Games:

Blood Bowl is currently most worked on, ETA is end of 2016 though. There *may* be another game from the Specialist Games Department before it though... ;-) "

So Lady Atia posted this in the bolter and chainsword forum - at first I thought it was Adeptus Titanicus - now I think it might be that rumoured genestealer hybrid vs Deathwatch game that's been rumoured.
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« Reply #106 on: January 07, 2016, 10:58:20 PM »
That'd suit their current style. 40k models that fill a niche people have been wanting for some time now.
Hopefully they'll be less secretive than GW main- I really want to know what direction they'll take Epic (once they've considered it).

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« Reply #107 on: January 08, 2016, 12:59:22 PM »
Well from what Atia and others have said it sounds like it's much closer tied to Forge World, which as we know, actually tells you what they're doing months in advance which is helpful.
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« Reply #108 on: January 10, 2016, 03:05:20 PM »
Based on what I've picked up so far, it seems that they will be releasing an Adeptus Titanicus big boxed set, rather than releasing a full Epic game unfortunately. IF the Adeptus Titanicus game sells well then PROBABLY, down the road they'll do a full re-launch of Epic.

Its not what I wanted to hear either but I thought it best to share, in case anyone was holding off getting into the current (fan based) Epic stuff as they were expecting a full Epic re launch in the next year or two.

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Re: Specialist Games return?
« Reply #109 on: January 10, 2016, 03:33:20 PM »
I'm actually pleased that Epic is not currently in the pipeline, especially if they have any plans to construct the rules based on consulting the community.

Adeptus Titanicus might sell, but whether it will sell enough to encourage Forgeworld to relaunch Epic is open to debate.  In view of 40K having turned itself into a vastly inferior version of Epic, Adeptus Titanicus may well struggle to capture the market in terms of younger players, and will there be enough veteran gamers who still have the time to play who will purchase Adeptus Titanicus?  I think that the jury is still out on that one.
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« Reply #110 on: January 10, 2016, 09:13:33 PM »
You'd like to think that BOFA would be easy to reinstate. Surely the moulds for the plastic figures didn't get all that much use and the metal figure ones even less.

Overall it's quite a small range and would give them a good indication as to the demand for 10mm fantasy gaming.

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« Reply #111 on: January 11, 2016, 11:43:11 PM »
The entire BoFA launch and demise was just... weird to me. I was very active back then, buying all of the WD magazines, regularly looking at the website, etc. and I never once saw advertising for that game. It was only on one bored night of trawling through the website that I came across it- and bought it- and about a month later it was gone, with no notice. I didn't have the chance to grab any of the cool metal models for it. They clearly wanted the game to fail, which just seems like madness.

An Adeptus Titanicus relaunch could be good. I play Epic, but that would still interest me for the detailed Titan-on-Titan combat (regular Epic rules for Titans are very simple). New Titan models could be very welcome as well. There are current sculpts in the community though that are absolutely brilliant, so GW has already lost some sales potential there. Knights and Warlords are the main things lacking at the moment.

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Re: Specialist Games return?
« Reply #112 on: January 13, 2016, 09:33:26 AM »
BoFA may have been a "obliged to produce" game, for contractual reasons?

It is a good set-up in its own right and could have made a briljant alternative Warmaster setting

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« Reply #113 on: January 13, 2016, 05:00:08 PM »
There are already so many Warmaster armies to choose from - but for a while I did attempt to find a good proxy list for LOTR in 10mm.

There's some good options out there but I have my plate full with the Old World right now. =3
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« Reply #114 on: January 18, 2016, 08:16:02 PM »
I view this possible return of SG the same as hearing about an ex asking about how I am doing
Nice to hear but not going to go back for more anger and heartache

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« Reply #115 on: January 19, 2016, 09:30:58 AM »
Lol, good comparison. "Let's be nice to each other but there is *no* way I'm getting back involved."

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« Reply #116 on: January 20, 2016, 02:07:31 AM »
oh man but if the game is good enough and your friends want you too.....  ;)

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« Reply #117 on: January 20, 2016, 11:44:03 AM »
oh man but if the game is good enough and your friends want you too.....  ;)

This is always the draw

But things are never as good as the first go around

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Re: Specialist Games return?
« Reply #119 on: January 28, 2016, 02:13:00 PM »
That's pretty cool.  "The original fantasy football," ha, clever.  Because let's be real, Fantasy Football is neither good fantasy nor good football.